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I'm in search of a philosophical cure for #bitterness. I'm afraid of becoming #bitter. I see myself criticizing everything more and more. I see so much ugliness and evil in the world, and I talk about it.

I was recently thinking on how to avoid it, and I think i have a promising path - give in, accept the ugliness and evil as the expected state of the world. Then the #beautiful and #good becomes a happy surprise, something to focus on.

Yeah, everything is disgusting, it's obvious, why would there be any need to repeat that? That's normal. Let's focus on the extraordinary, seemingly miraculous sparks of #joy and #beauty! They are so rare, and therefore much more important. They are worth being noticed

I maybe that's my path.

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@drawnto I was married for 18 year to a beautiful, talented woman that I loved very much and helped die of cancer. Just celebrated my 16th anniversary married to my handsome strong, bear. I know your #Bitter type. They hang out and #daydrink at the end of the bar never able to engage or having a meaningful and lasting relationship.

I am hurting emotionally. The people who came to look at the house here are the doctor being hired to replace me and his family

That really hurts. I should not have had to leave. I should not have to go back to 3 miserable years of hard training for next to no money to do a lesser specialty in terms of knowledge

And it hurts to know what he'll be told about me- the badmouthing that kept me from finding any job within 50 miles of here

I deserved a better life than this #sad #unlucky #bitter